We Put Up With A Lot To

I Admire People Who Are Suited To The Contemplative Life. They Can Sit Inside Themselves Like Honey In A Jar And Just Be.

Creeds And Causal Systems Have Argued With Each Other For Millennia, And Even So We And Our Ancestors Have Managed To Live In A World Of Differing Opinions. Philosophical Disputes Don't Often Affect The Price Of Fish Or Wine.

Though We Do Not Have Many Poets, We Certainly Have More Than We Deserve, For We Deserve None At All. It Is Ourselves That We Are Hurting By Our Stupidity And Ignorance Of Poetry.

If Every Nation Gets The Government It Deserves, Every Generation Writes The History Which Corresponds With Its View Of The World.

Mythology Is Like Gravity, Inconvenient At Times, But Necessary For Cohesion.